What if these background book boyfriends never existed?

I just can’t control my hands, as I want so much to share my thoughts with you on this topic.

What do you think about background characters?

How do you get along with their stories and influence on protagonist?

As for me, they are the most interesting heroes in the books. You know, it’s like you understand pretty everything with the participation of protagonist in a plot and about relations and their happy-or-not ending. And, if you are a bookworm you possibly can trace within your beloved genres of books the same kind of progress between main characters. But, you never know the destiny of background character. And it’s such a stunning discovery during your reading.

So here I’d like to invent another way of plot development, and I’d like to take as an example very familiar books those I hope you’ve already read as they are very famous and popular. Inasmuch as I can’t play this game with any background character, I’d like to separate one kind of them – boyfriends.

Just imagine, what if these background boyfriends did the things wrong and never fell in love with their love-mates? What if they never existed? God forbid! So maybe, after all, we’ll find the truth about their ‘background-ness’ (Is it even a word?)

So, here we have two boyfriends and their love story is epic and a little bit reckless, but still superb. I appreciate that Cassandra Clare gave us these characters as their relations are out of the common borders. But, never mind the story we already know let’s pretend they’ve never met and consequently their love never happened. Yeah, I know, this assumption is heartbreaking, but we have to overcome this feeling. So, what do we have as a result? No relations, no affection, no love fluids, no heroic deeds and OMG… Magnus Bane will never support and assist Shadowhunters. All I can say they couldn’t survive through the sequel without any help of this charming green-cat-eyed warlock. His aid is invaluable, and consequences of its loss are unpredictable. I’m so happy that the miracle of their amour had happened. Cheers!

Desperate times need desperate heroes motivated by desperate feelings. Indeed love is over the edge with despair. So this is the best turn of events for Katniss. Sure she doesn’t give a clue, that she can be supported by a top-of-the-line ally, whose primary goal is saving his lady-love. Thank you, Haymitch, who was so prudent to conclude such beneficial alliance. So, love of despair boyfriend, Finnick Odair, to broken down beloved, Annie Cresta, was the start of lasting partnership and the first wave of the unconcealed rebellion against the tyranny of the Capitol leader. Hard to imagine the consequences of absence such dramatic love-story. Better I won’t.

This background character had not that kind of story we expected. Arobynn Hamel is a cruel and calculating leader of assassins, who passionates to the protagonist, Celaena Sardothien, deep inside his black heart. However, he’ll never get her love, so he finds the best alternative to extinguish his flame of adoration using Lysandra as his lover. There is no fondness or any other true feelings between them except self-interest. He’s playing cruel games with Lysandra in the hope of causing Celaena’s jealousy. Thereby he doesn’t notice he nurtures an enemy suchlike as Lysandra. As we say, ‘enemy of the enemy is my friend’, Lysandra and Celaena become allies despite their disputes. Their future friendship will bring us a lot of surprises. So thank you, Arobynn, you were so blind and never had a real crush on Lysandra. If something went wrong, both of you could live happily ever after, causing real troubles to Celaena and as a result, she’d never got a powerful ally.

If you have any other ideas on this topic, please share them with me in the comments below. Hope you can invent a personal plot twist with your favorite background characters – boyfriends or girlfriends is up to you.